Web Workflow All web developers seem to have a slightly different workflow. Last week I set out on a journey to increase my web development productivity. I’m currently using OS X Leopard 10.5.4 on a iMac 2.1GHz G5. Coda ‘Coda‘, made by panic, is a…
SugarCRM installation error “MySQL not available”
While moving a SugarCRM installation to a different server I found this problem – “MySQL not available”. Firstly I had a blank page and then decide to re-run the installation script. During the system check it listed MySQL as not available, so I checked for…
Internet Explorer 8 Beta
IE8 Beta has been released specially for developers and web programmers. It comes with some interesting features: * IE7 Emulation * Developer Tools for debugging, with similar functionality to the Firefox Ad on (mentioned just as a reference not as a comparison). * IE8 activities – Providing quick access to external services from any webpage by sending information…
WordPress get_excerpt – show more words
the get_excerpt function on WordPress shows the first 55 words of your post, striped out of any special formatting eg: links, bold, etc. I wanted to change it for a blog I was developing so I traced it back to the function wp_trim_excerpt in the…
PHP Shopping cart
On my previous post I wrote about e-comerce tutorials. As part of the system I’m buiding I was looking for a pre-coded shopping cart in PHP (the cart only with nothing else attached to it). I was getting very fustrated with the ammount of stuff…
e-commerce tutorials [ php mysql ]
I’ve embarked in a journey of building a tailor-made E-commerce system. I need to be able to have everything my client needs so I’m coding it from scratch, with the help of some good tutorials I found online. Sometimes having to search for while to…